Morning.
"Mmm."
After a long while, their lips parted. Kaede's cheeks were slightly flushed, and a faint pink had spread across her neck. It was impossible to tell whether she was embarrassed or simply oxygen-deprived from kissing too long.
A good-morning kiss!
Kaede and Suzu naturally agreed easily to Uchiha Nan's tiny request.
Suzu was next. Looking at her rosy lips, Uchiha Nan lowered his head.
Their lips parted.
"Come back early!"
"Mm!"
Uchiha Nan nodded, left the house, and arrived at the Hokage Building to begin another day of work.
Office.
"Now that the funding has arrived, the Ninja Academy needs to continue enrolling students. How are this year's admissions plans coming along?"
Uchiha Nan looked at Nara Shikaku before him and asked about this year's Ninja Academy enrollment.
The consecutive wars had nearly wiped out an entire generation of ninja clans. It could not go on with the clans constantly filling the gaps.
The Ninja Academy had originally been established to train civilian ninja on a large scale.
In Konoha's future, civilian ninja would become the mainstream. Their average quality might not match that of clan ninja, but there were far more of them!
With such a large base, outstanding ninja would always emerge, like Orochimaru and Jiraiya. Both had come from civilian backgrounds.
They had not yet made names for themselves in the Ninja World, but their potential was limitless. They had practically surpassed the clan ninja of their generation.
By the Third Great Ninja War, a prodigy like Minato Namikaze had even appeared.
They had to invest heavily in civilian ninja.
Moreover, the principal of the Ninja Academy had always been Konoha's Hokage. Every student who graduated from the academy could call themselves the Hokage's student, though few actually did so. Everyone had some pride.
Unless,